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Scaling The National through Poetics: A dialogue between Rodrigo Toscano and...
To begin our interviews series this week, our editors have decided to pull out something a bit SPoOkY: a conversation about contemporary poetics and its divergence from the national toward . . ....
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Stories help us be able to be brave: Adoption and Belonging with Mariama J....
Mine is an adoptee-rich family on both sides and I’m a foster parent and so glad The Rumpus has made space to hear from adoptee authors—putting the focus on them and their stories. As such, I leapt at...
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Nothing and Everything: An Interview with Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills on the...
One day in 1982, a six-month-old girl was placed on a plane in Seoul, South Korea. She was issued a temporary passport for the sole purpose of transporting her to her new white adoptive family in...
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But tonight, a little more: A Conversation with J. Hope Stein
You just go on your nerve, Frank O’Hara said about the lyric poet. I think J. Hope Stein understands this notion, but she brings to it a kind of astonishment that’s vulnerable yes, brave yes, but also...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with C. Russell Price
The Rumpus Book Club chats with C. Russell Price about their poetry collection Oh You Thought This Was a Date?! (Triquarterly Books, June 2022), playlists, and the ongoing end- of-the-world. This is an...
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I’m a Firm Believer in Timing: An Interview with Rubén Degollado
Rubén Degollado’s work is widely published, and has been anthologized in Living Beyond Borders and Nepantla Familias. His first novel, Throw (Slant Books), is set in the Río Grande Valley of Texas,...
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Threats of Violence: Discussing Pain, Form, and Cinema du Corps with Author...
Stephanie LaCava, author of the novel The Superrationals (Semiotext[e], 2020) and the experimental memoir An Extraordinary Theory of Objects (Harper, 2012), has written her second novel, I Fear My Pain...
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Boys and Oil: Taylor Brorby on Making Space for Queer Stories on the Great...
Taylor Brorby may have moved away from his hometown of Center, North Dakota, but Center, North Dakota hasn’t left Taylor Brorby. At least not in his work. Brorby’s prose is sowed to the geologic...
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A Conversation with Adam Rosen about anthologies and the worst movie ever made
Adam Rosen is the editor of the anthology, You Are Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!: The Year’s Work on The Room, the Worst Movie Ever Made (Indiana University Press, October 2022), a book about The Room...
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We’re more powerful if we’re not so embroiled in illusion: A Conversation...
Power, anti-work feeling, joy, and deviance are all themes found in Irene Silt’s writing. Earlier this fall they released two books through Deluge Press, an avant-garde publishing newcomer run by...
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Telling our necessary truths: A Conversation with Janet Rodriguez
Writing a family memoir would be daunting to any writer, but when Janet Rodriguez took on this challenge in her debut book, she brought together five generations of her family and compiled their...
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Pinning myself like a butterfly onto the page: A Conversation with Kimberly...
Say what you will about Instagram poets, but I know firsthand there is rich talent, support, and community there. Case in point: Kimberly Nguyen. Years ago, she and I met online when I searched...
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A rush of joy from complete strangers: An interview with Monica Macansantos
When Monica Macansantos and I meet through our laptop videos, not only are we in different places, but different days. I am in New England on a cold, dark evening while Monica is in the Philippines on...
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Inventing the Form of Yourself: A conversation with Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner’s debut, Couplets, is an embarrassment of riches about one woman’s second adolescence after she becomes infatuated with a woman and abandons her stable partnership with a man. The story...
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A Kind of Common Madness: A Conversation with Liz Harmer
Destructive desire, a brother so psychically contaminated by his twin sister’s sexual life it’s as though her actions are his, a mother who inflames the mutual enmity between her children, social codes...
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Navigating the Messy, the Scary, and the Beautiful: A conversation with...
“I never feel like I know how to live in the world. Only on top of it, hanging on as it spins madly,” Marisa Crane writes in their debut novel I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself (Catapult, 2023). From a...
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Belonging across multiple places: Sorayya Khan examines the concept of home
I met Sorayya Khan last year at a publishing panel for nonfiction writers. I’ve long admired her work and classed her with writers such as Tania James, Claire Messud, and Aminatta Forna, international...
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When Craft Becomes an Act of Love: An Interview with Gayle Brandeis
Gayle Brandeis is glowing on my screen, talking about the body’s part in her creative process. That same morning, she and her friend, Rebecca Evans, led a class called “Musings and Movement,” where...
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What might my gaze reveal? An Interview with Erica Berry
In Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear, debut author Erica Berry traverses vast and varied terrain, just as the famed wolf OR-7 did. In his journey beyond the Wallowa Mountains of...
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The page is the stage: An interview with Junious Ward
Junious “Jay” Ward’s first full collection of poems, Composition, published by Button Poetry brings high expectations from the reader. This isn’t a book that spoon feeds. He plays with form—which one...
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